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I might be wrong but when chams sleep with their eyes open it means they have hard dried out skin around their eyes and cant close them completly

he hasnt really ate much since i got him maybe like four crickets a day and a mini superworm once a week but ya its been exactly on week since he has ate and ive been having to force feed him water since i posted the help asap thread i have upped his misting to about 10 times a day i let his...

ill do that for sure i might head back up to denver tomorrow after my math final to get some blood work done just to be safe. the things you do for the animals you love :)

Thank you ill try that the poor guy just sits under his basking lamp with his eyes closed :(

so my vet told me to force feed bottled gatorade down my cham cause he is dehydrated and hasnt ate in a week. this doesnt sound like a good idea cause of the high fructose corn syrup. it seems like its too sticky he holds his head and body straight up and down. im worried he is loosing weight...

That is the coolest thing i have ever seen in my life. you have some skills chris :)

well its a spray that you spray on their feeders and wait like 30 seconds for it to dry then feed them

So i drove the four hours to denver and missed 3 finals in college :( but the vet said i need to force feed him and water him with a syringe. he showed me how and said once he gets rehydrated he will want to eat and drink on his own im having a hard time getting the syringe in his mouth he is so...

how warm is that? ive heard mixed answers from 80-90

i put a heater in my room and now its 90 f in his basking spot and ill keep the heater on all night and it will be 20 degrees warmer

his body was 68 degrees

i think he might have just got really cold last night i got him warmed up and ive been trying to give him water through a syringe his eyes arnt as sunken in as this morning. hows a good way for me to get water in his mouth he wont even get fired up or anything

Help So i woke up this morning and i thought vert was dead he was just laying there cold with his eyes shut he is deffinatly dehydrated his eyes were so sunken in so i got a few drops of water in him with a syringe and it seemed to give him more energy and now he wont open his mouth for more...

ya i have his basking vine about 2 inches from the top of the screen and he seemed to enjoy that alot after i moved that today

the night time temps are 68-73 thats about the warmest i can keep it in my house at night. my house was built in 1910 so its not that insulated

Well when i first got on the forum thats what i was doing and i saved a copy to my computer so thats what i was doing when i first got him. but i started doing the 12 on 12off about a week after i got him, and it gets dark at about 6 and the sun rises about 630 or 7

Haha sometimes i wish i could but ya i have my basking light and uvb on a timer, they turn on at 8 am and off at 8 pm

its pitch black i take the feeding cup out every night before bed. and sometimes im up till about 1 doing homework but i was in bed pretty early last night

He started this morning when i woke up ill sneak in my room and look at him and he is just sitting there with his eyes closed but if i make a noise he opens em and when he does he looks like he hasnt slept at all he just looks exhausted

18" Zoo Med Repti-Glo 5.0 15watt in a 15 watt floresent fixture. the last few days he has been hanging upside down about 1 1/2 inches away from the bulb, i just thought he was about to shed and it felt good maybe thats the problem